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After being withdrawn from service, DB993898 arrived on the SVR from Tinsley on 19 November 1990 minus its ploughs, having been acquired by two SVR members. It was later fitted with ploughs acquired from the Duddeston Wagon Shops in Birmingham after they closed in 1993 and put to work on P-Way duties.<ref name=SB9/>
Wagon repairs were (and are) normally carried out by the [[Bewdley Carriage & Wagon Department]]. However in June 1996 co-owner Les Johnson persuaded the [[Carriage Repair Works#Other_facilities|Bridgnorth C&W ]] team to "repair a stepboard or two and give it a quick repaint" between carriage jobs. It quickly became the Bridgnorth team's first full wagon restoration, requiring three weeks of continuous work to address the rotten woodwork alone. Most of the step boards were renewed, as were the verandah top-rails, newel-posts and locker lids. The cabin doors were made to shut properly and fitted with locks. It was restored to as-new 1957 livery; externally Engineers Black lettered in the original style and text, with bauxite lower verandah and cabin walls, and internally cream upper cabin walls and white ceiling throughout. The team even did some work on the lowering gear for the ploughs, one of which had been jammed for a while. After some 3 months, DB993898 re-entered traffic for a P.Way ballast drop in October 1996.<ref name=SVR121/>
DB993876 underwent another overhaul in 2004, on this occasion by the regular volunteer team at [[Carriage Repair Works#Kidderminster_Carriage_Repair_Works|Kidderminster ]] assisted by two work-experience clients. Some of the vehicle's woodwork had deteriorated since the Bridgnorth restoration due to storage in the open. Several dozen planks around the verandah were changed, along with two of the frame members and all of the locker lids. A full set of stepboards were made for one side and repairs made to the other side. It also received a full repaint to the exterior in Engineers Black with correct style ochre lettering, and brick red for the verandah interior. One of the ploughs which had been stuck for several years was freed with the aid of a large sledgehammer, a crowbar and some oil.<ref>SVR News 149</ref>
DB993876 continued in use on engineers' P-Way trains. The photograph below shows it in a ballast train at [[Bewdley]] in April 2015.
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In 2016 the then owners took the decision to donate 993898 to the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd | SVR Charitable Trust]], thus ensuring its long term place as part of the SVR's wagon fleet. {{As of|2020|1}} it was being restored From 2019 an overhaul took place by the Carriage and Wagon team in the cattle dock at Bridgnorth. {{As of|2021}} that work continues<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bloct21 Branch Lines, October 2021]</ref>.
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